Kali Paltan Mandir

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| location = Meerut

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| state = Uttar Pradesh

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Kali Paltan Mandir is the commonly used name of the Shiva temple Augarhnath Mandir, close to the army barracks in the Indian city of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. It was founded following the discovery of a Shivalinga under the ground in 1844. The foundation stone for the modern larger temple complex was laid in 1968. The temple houses the water well where Indian sepoys who fired the first shots in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 met.{{Cite book |last=Sehgal |first=Vineeta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGqVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 |title=1857 Augarnath Temple Meerut Beginning of India's Freedom Fight |date=2022 |publisher=Blue Rose Publishers |pages=38–40 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Dasgupta |first=Devashish |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXWAEjcG-FsC&pg=PA20 |title=Tourism Marketing |date=2011 |publisher=Pearson Education India |location=Delhi|isbn=978-81-317-3182-6 |chapter=1. Tourism market environment scanning. Unsung tourist destination: Meerut (Uttar Pradesh))|pages=20 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Kumar |first1=Sunaina |title=On the 160th Anniversary of the 1857 Uprising, Meet the Meerut Historian Keeping the Story Alive |url=https://thewire.in/health/on-the-160th-anniversary-of-the-1857-uprising-meet-the-meerut-historian-keeping-the-story-alive |access-date=22 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423072838/https://thewire.in/health/on-the-160th-anniversary-of-the-1857-uprising-meet-the-meerut-historian-keeping-the-story-alive|archive-date=23 April 2023|work=The Wire |date=10 May 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Nighoskar |first1=Devyani |title=How Meerut's Kali Paltan Mandir, launchpad for the Sepoy Mutiny, is a beacon of the city's rebellious spirit |url=https://www.firstpost.com/living/how-meeruts-kali-paltan-mandir-launchpad-for-the-sepoy-mutiny-is-a-beacon-of-the-citys-rebellious-spirit-7086071.html |access-date=22 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423073148/https://www.firstpost.com/living/how-meeruts-kali-paltan-mandir-launchpad-for-the-sepoy-mutiny-is-a-beacon-of-the-citys-rebellious-spirit-7086071.html|archive-date=23 April 2023 |work=Firstpost |date=2 August 2019 |language=en}}